This article explains how you can output the value of a secret variable stored in Azure DevOps. This applies both to secrets stored in a Variable Group, or Pipeline Variables stored as secrets. Is it safe, secure and advisable to do this? No! But is it possible? Yes it is!…Continue reading How to output the value of a secret variable in Azure DevOps?
In one of my article’s comments section, I’ve been suffering from semi-automated spam advertising “Long Path Tool”. It’s a tool that can be used to create symlinks for files located deep in folder structure – a simple use case with a lot of free tools available to resolve the same…Continue reading Long Path Tool – an unfortunate review
Microsoft has just retired the Windows Dev Home experience before it ever came out of Preview -status. And before it ever became that useful. Or even functional, if you ask me. It was a good idea (or maybe even a really good one), that never really materialized. I mean, I…Continue reading Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived!
This article explains how to sensitively and carefully limit your Home Assistant’s database growth, without losing any valuable data. And because data is the new oil, pretty much all of the data is valuable. Who knows when you need to know whether your basement door was open or closed 1…Continue reading Taming my Home Assistant database growth
This article shows a few benchmarks I have run on the performance improvement that Dev Drive offers, using a real-life project I am (well, was) working on some time ago. The simple examples in this article should give you some guidance on what kind of performance you should be able…Continue reading Dev Drive performance increase in real life scenarios?
This article explains how you can identify which wifi bands your TP-Link Decos are using, without using a WiFi Analyzer or other such tools. I’ll also explain why you might need this information – in my case it was about interference (because of course it was!) And as usual, this…Continue reading How to identify which wifi band your Decos are using?
Just a quick tip I learned the hard way: if you want to host a website on GitHub Pages, make sure to only point the www-subdomain, and not the “naked”, apex domain, in case you’re using it for email mailboxes. I learned the hard way that the A records pointing…Continue reading Don’t assign root domain to GitHub Pages if you use it for email!
I recently (finally) moved to a commercial Password Manager after I got tired of having to copy-paste everything from KeePass in my apps on Windows and letting the only company on Earth that has to remind themselves in their slogan NOT to be Evil handle all of my web/Android passwords.…Continue reading Experiences from migrating to Bitwarden
